Which rudiment is your favorite? (essential or non-essential) Mine is the herta. The single stroke roll is a close second.

@dabbinrascal7975

3 жыл бұрын

Pataflafla wins by the name alone

@TheAkus

3 жыл бұрын

There all good aslong as you do them on a gong hi-hat

@Brian-rj1un

3 жыл бұрын

Flam 5

@johnstrong283

3 жыл бұрын

Double stroke roll is my favorite. We literally would do this for an hour at Northern Aurora. It helps immensely

@emilymielke9712

3 жыл бұрын

I was always a fan of the eggbeater.

As a drum set player, I would argue that the six stroke roll is A tier since it is a life saver when playing triplet fills orchestrated around the drums

@aidanschram9652

3 жыл бұрын

Its the first rudiment that I started spamming the shit out of and using in every fill lmao

@bartuce6806

3 жыл бұрын

truuueee probably one of the most versitile rudiments ever and sound amazing .

@Seafroggys

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, on drumset I play 6's just as much as 5's, usually in triplet form.

@joshuaallgood7030

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Also, double paradiddles are very useful on a drumkit as well.

@paradiddlesjosh

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaallgood7030 Seconded. The Purdy Shuffle is basically an orchestrated double paradiddle on loop

Okay now write a cadence using all 40 rudiments 👀😩

@mrnoname2353

3 жыл бұрын

There is allready a Cadence named Drum Corps on Parade

@derrickburwell7777

3 жыл бұрын

I have written a cadence using all 40 Rudiments. The snares plays from 40 to 1, the tenors and basses 1-4 play from 1 to 40, Bass 5 lays down an ostinato funk rhythm to provide some groove. I wrote, and posted, it on Noteflight. 👍🏾

@derrickburwell7777

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrnoname2353 I love Drum Corps on Parade!

@Ihitthings3

3 жыл бұрын

Try the ‘Connecticut Halftime’. it’s got most of them

@DanielHill115

3 жыл бұрын

Sdjmalik did it

6:03 my high school Drumline 2018 be like… 😂

@cornboy7424

3 жыл бұрын

popcorn

@yourbaconsburning9736

Күн бұрын

Hello Tyler

Ratamacues were super common in 60's era drum corps. If you look up an old Reilly Raiders solo called "Grey Ghost," you will see how prevalent they were back then. (Heck, it may even be good content to play it, as it is so dramatically different.)

Well now you gotta rank all the hybrid rudiments 🙃

The quadruple ratamacue is my absolute favorite by a stick shot, er I mean a long shot

@davidhand6049

3 жыл бұрын

Id prefer it by a rim-shot

@austinlincoln3414

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer the quinseptuagintuple ramataque

Video 42 of commenting till emc makes a gong hi-hat

@drummerboi05

3 жыл бұрын

Rip

@haydenreidling559

3 жыл бұрын

Video 42 of saying I know you to Frz Akus

@jesselazenby912

3 жыл бұрын

he already did, check his channel

@recksroller2220

3 жыл бұрын

42.0

@FerretPercussion

3 жыл бұрын

@@jesselazenby912 we wish, but it was an april fools thumbnail.

For drumset players like myself, the Double Paradidle is really good to play some nice Afro-Cuban 6/8 grooves. 6 stroke rolls are also really good in sextuplet form. The flam accent is probably my favourite though (after singles doubles and paradidles)

@joemadisonstudios

9 ай бұрын

Also great for marching band snare solo (football game) going from single paradiddles to double paradiddles are nice

Loved this. Education and humor. Seems like 45 years ago I was only taught 25 rudiments. Kind of like the periodic table. It just keeps growing.

@derrickburwell7777

3 жыл бұрын

I was accepted into the V Corps band as a percussionist because I knew all 40 International Rudiments, while the percussionists had only been taught the 25 American Standard. When I was asked to play the Swiss Army Triplet, I played them alternating the lead hand. The sergeant stopped me and asked if they were consecutive, I said yes, played them that way, and he was floored. That was in 1992. 😊

@kevinjones5560

3 жыл бұрын

@@derrickburwell7777 I was playing mid-late ‘70s. Don’t think there was a Swiss Army much less a Swiss Army triplet. 😉

@ejtaylor73

2 ай бұрын

When I played there were 26 standard rudiments in N.A.R.D.

7:38 just wanna say in drum set drumming, especially in the rock and metal genres, the double paradiddle is used ALL the time, especially in grooves see as a generic example "Glasgow Kiss" by John Petrucci when the drums come in near the start

@yakacm

2 жыл бұрын

Glasgow kiss, is a local euphemism here in Glasgow for a head but, like when you smash someone in the nose with your head, during a Buckfast fuelled altercation.

@fotero78

Жыл бұрын

Pantera, Slaughtered. Bridge.

26 rudiments were the ones that were learned "back in the day." I agree, a lot of other ones are, in fact, redundant to others. The double stroke "open" roll is still the most important one, IMO. Great to get caught up on today's rudiments!

Agreed for the most part. That being said what if each one was a signaling something as a communication. Drums were ancestrally used to signal troops to action

@lampoilropebombs0640

3 жыл бұрын

New soldier: ooh this is a drum, let’s play something I’ve learned in high school. His fellow soldiers: WHO TF TOLD YOU THE COMMANDER IS DEAD?

@Cekmore

Жыл бұрын

African talking drums. Whistlers of the canary.digiridoo of australia

There's a great double paradiddle part in the Dave Matthew's Band song "Drive In Drive Out". Not a drum corps thing, I know, but it's great to see how rudiments beyond single and double stroke rolls are applied to mainstream music.

@judecrawford2351

3 жыл бұрын

It’s just Carter Beaford working his magic.

@dephatmanable

3 жыл бұрын

That part took me 2 years to master!

Therapist: Eric without glasses isn’t real, he can’t hurt you Eric without glasses:

@jwaj

3 жыл бұрын

Welp I’m not sleeping tonight

As someone who marched drum corps and has been teaching high school drumlines for several years, I've learned that if you can learn to play an accent, tap, buzz, diddle, and flam, you can play almost anything written for corps-style marching. Pretty much everything you will ever need to play is just a combination of one or more of those ideas lol

You have no know how much you just helped this non percussion playing music teacher 😂

the one person who disliked just doesn't have the chops to play any of the rudiments

Ok. So I sat through this video. I'm a horn player. I played Horn and Mellophone in High School. I then went and enlisted in the Army for 3 years. In 2001 I found DCA Drum Corps. Played til 2005. Was a member of the 2003 DCA World Champions. Played Mellophone, Soprano, and Trumpet. So I know what Drum Corps Drummers have to do. That you're USMC D&BC gives you credibility and my utmost respect. That said....I watched Every. Single. One. Sorry for my hornline ignorance, but after about 5 minutes they all sound the same to me. I'm glad you understand them, because I sure don't. That said, I do love watching your stuff. Keep up the work!

really wish the PAS rudiments are changed, feels outdated for most modern percussion applications, agree with almost everything you said but flam drag is probably one the of the hardest if not the hardest one on the PAS 40 and it's an awesome chop builder. For me it deserves A or B.

as a drum set player, double strokes are awesome for very fast fills if you cant single stroke fast enough. Paradiddles and inverted paradiddles are fun for fills too

They were called essential because they were used by military to call army or navy personal to take specific actions during combat

Man. I love your videos. Keep doing what you’re doing man. You’re making the whole drumming community happy. Thanks for putting so much hard work in the videos. 👌👌

I just got in my high school drumline and I’m really excited

@MrRezRising

3 жыл бұрын

Go practice. 🙂

@brycegetz5069

3 жыл бұрын

Literally don’t stop practicing 😐

@KunaevNS

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Have a good time.

@japetrini

2 жыл бұрын

Practice and learn your music!

Excellent performance of the rudiments Eric! Great chops man. BTW I love the triple stroke rolls.

We need a hybrid rudiment tier list now!

The double paradiddle appears in Fife and Drum music from time to time, especially when passing off for higher ranks.

“You can’t just roll for ever, you gotta sleep and poop n stuff.....” you can never take the potty mouth out of a percussionist lol! In all seriousness this is an outstanding video!

@killerr.miller

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! I thought it was just me and my drumline who had potty mouths. The more percussionists I know the more I realize they all do.

I just want to say thank you for spending your time making funny and good videos for people like me I hope you get the amount of subs you deserve in the near future. Thank you

Great video! Did not realise it was 20 minutes long until it finished. Agree with you for most of the rudiments. Especially for how cool it is to pronounce Pataflafla.

I wish this video existed when I was learning the rudiments. I was always wondering if I was playing it right or it sounding right. Great video still my guy

You should do the hybrid rhythm tier list next for all of us corp style people

I’m early AF! I loved the tier list, and I love your content! Always gives me a good morning! I hope you have a great morning and good rest of your April!

Being a trap set player in jazz ensemble, double paradiddles where a great way to cheat a bembe rhythm on the ride bell ;)

You literally put the best rudiment last, I can’t believe this. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

Four years of marching and I finally get a double paradiddle . Followed by 8th notes on the left . Because that makes sense

This is the best video I have seen to learn all of those rudiments. I agree also, I think of these as rhythms also and have hit most of them just playing through the years. I did learn all of them in band lessons too tho! Just play set more than big band so had to learn a lot of it myself n transfer the knowledge to the kit like they did in the 60s and 70s

Hi! I saw your untilvalhalla video and came all the way to this channel! This is my warm-up today🔥

Personally I love the flow of flam paradiddles! Blue Devils used them in their opener for Metamorph (2017) and it works well, IMO. Then again, snare/percussion isn’t my primary instrument so my opinion doesn’t hold a ton of weight.

Thank you! I played marching snare in high-school but lost interest in college bc we had a terrible teacher. Now that I'm in my 30s, I fell back in love with it. You have helped me get my chops back. Thanks again!

Rather than interpreting drags as a diddled sixteenth, I like to think it as more of the last partial of a triplet, but diddled (when metrically applied, obviously in a concert setting you can have fluid interpretation)

Beautiful chart. Thanks!

I'm learning more about drumming than I ever thought I would. Or maybe even wanted to. And yet I'm still here!

After 50 years of playing I always thought lesson 25 was useless too. Alternating makes it cool.

The flammed mill, too, is good for practicing the completely open sticking of the cheese rudiment!

Flam Paradiddles are frequent in show style percussion features, I believe

I like your scientific breakdown of the rudiments . I really like drum lines and their choreography.Its cool stuff.

Thanks, Sir! Your videos are awesome 👍

Much respect for being a marine and being one hell of a drummer my dad was a marine 52 thru 55

Brilliant! I completely agree with your list. And the video was entertaining. Good stuff!

Great breakdown of these "standard" rudiments. I appreciate the tier ranking. Pretty accurate in my opinion.

Got auditions for drumline today! Going for snare this year. Wish me luck!

Is the bunny shirt also essential? Asking for a friend

@EMCproductions

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. S tier.

I'm a non drummer hopeful composer and this is really helping me think outside the box for percussion writing

The drag rudiments variations makes a lot more sense if played like "ruffs" and closer to the main note. It's how you would usually play it in classical music to match/line up with the wind and brass parts. How tight they should be varies a LOT and it's something I have herd conductors comment on multiple actions. Also the drags strokes (and flams) in the "European style" uses more of a "3 stick height system" where the grace notes are noticeable softer then the taps (1"), instead of using the same height for both "drum core style". This makes them a beeeeatch to play and the level of control needed for the downward motion is even greater. So in those cases the drag rudiment is essential to practice and variations of them is in the standard orchestra excerpt for classical snare drums, just because they are so hard to get. And don't get me started on the "three stroke ruff" =P

Herta herta shot supremacy

My very first drum lesson, I was given the following rudiments: Single and Double stroke roll Paradiddle, double para, and triple para I think I'd put the double and triple paradiddle as A tier, for a kit drummer. The double paradiddle is great for mixing it up in a triplet form, and the triple is actually good for getting your off hand some time leading the roll.

Love your videos! I think I agree with the majority of your list. I’d possibly put the triple stroke role up into the “A” category but that’s really just splitting hairs. The one I think you placed in the “F” category I would place way higher (“A” or “B”) is the single stroke seven. In contrast to the basic single stroke roll, players have to re-attack the rhythm and release the rhythm. It can help teach consistent note spacing in single sticking rhythms all the way to a release, as well as force players to focus on second note volume/quality.

As an exclusive kit player (who has spent way too much time on the pad) I love a double paradiddle and use it all over the place..! You can stick it in a jazz groove, or a nice little halftime shuffle. And if you’re playing a 6/8 Latin thing - the right hand is (almost) replicating the 6/8 clavé pattern (enough to get by on at a push).

Double paradiddles are a nice way to toss off the lead to the other such as in runs going up and down the quads. Feels a little goofy at first, but it's fun to do with triplet doubles and paradiddlediddles

Single stroke seven is used in ancient rudimental/fife and drum to double flamacues, and flam-paradiddles are probably the most common rudiment there. You’ve never played Downfall of Paris? lol

I always used the double paradiddle as a way to begin/write snare splits.

Dude can I just say, I have been playing drums for nearly 8 years now. I have never been as technically proficient as someone with my experience should be. This video is a big reason as to why I am right into my rudiments at the moment. You have inspired me to practice them all. PATAFLAFLA!

Funny to see how you find the single stroke 4s and 7s useless while I've had to play them for years as a more military European style. It's amazing to get to know more styles like this.

Muy buen vídeo! Gracias

Thank you for such useful and necessary lessons! Super!

My high school drumline never wrote or played flams. Our techs saw them as basically controlled dirt and never even tried to teach us how to play clean grace notes, focusing on clean diddles instead

I think it’s hilarious you don’t even TALK about the Triple Ratamacue. I laughed by backside off watching that last part!

The six stroke roll is S or A, it's use a ton on the kit especially in metal bands like dream theater

@MalikEmmanuel

3 жыл бұрын

The problem is that when we play a “6 stroke roll” on the kit we are really doing something like an inverted paradiddlediddle with an extra accent and he already has that as A tier. Check the rhythm.

I love how PAS doesn't notate the double drag tap in the traditional sense. I honestly think it sounds better when old snare drummers slur the hell out of it anyway.

I find Lesson 25 kind of fun (though it does make me wonder what the first 24 lessons are, and why none of them made the list, and why it's #34 on the rudiment sheet). I've always alternated right and left every time, I'm not even sure I knew that's not how it's supposed to go.

The double paradiddle is cooler if you add an accent on the third note. You should play around with those - I am surprised you have never written them. But my favorite rudiment by far is the swiss army triplet. I could play those super fast before I even knew what they were (Basically I just played a bad roll....but it felt like I was doing something really cool.)

Pataflalas, Swiss Army triplets, flam taps, and flam accents are all fun to apply around the drum set

I'd love to see your version of 40 essential rudaments

Eliud Ayala Jr. who usually writes (wgi) Impact Percussion's show music likes to use double paradiddles a lot

this helps a lot sense my drum line try out is in a couple days

As a pipe band drummer and also a military side drummer I feel like the main thing that comes up is double strokes singles single paradiddles and 5,7&13 stroke rolls and the 25 stoke roll or 3 pace roll

PATAFLAFLA!!! Great rudiment! My favorites are flam accents, paradiddles, and paradiddle-diddles.

Either way supports the algorithm... Classic EMC!!!!!!!!!!!

"Keep your grace note down!!!"-Dennis DeLucia

I like how serious and funny this video was ! Thanks for this great rudiments analysing work. Btw, final results are at 20:05 😉

I personally really like the single flammed mill and the swiss army triplet and feel they should be higher on the list because they teach you how to layer together an inverted double with one hand and a regular double with the other.

great job!

2:13 DARKNESS IMPRISONING ME

I've been spending time with the paradiddle diddle lately, so, I'll go with that for now.

Guess that I'll have to learn snare drumming ALL OVER again especially since my high school music teacher didn't teach me anything in his percussion class and was just very short with me and went back into his office and abandoned me when I asked questions.

The pataflafla appears in higher level Fife and Drum music frequently. “Crazy Army” has a few.

LONG ago when I played there were only 26 standard/essential rudiments from N.A.R.D. I enjoyed ratamacues. The most difficult thing for me learning was the right hand, being a lefty, I wanted to do everything left handed. I would try to focus and just do the rudiments right handed, but as I sped up I would switch to doing them left handed without even realizing I had. Made for fun and annoying times for the drum instructor, he wrote things right hand dominant and I would end up switching to left hand dominant without noticing I did. 🤣

Just the video I needed :) 20:04 for the final tier-list

Good video, I just wanted to hear your fast playing tho 😂

My personal favorite rudiment is the swiss army triplet as it helps me get into faster playing as i’m trying to build up my snare chops In jazz drumming i tend to use triplet fills so i’m also starting to use swiss army’s for more diversity on the drum set and to build up my snare skills whilst playing set

Hands down as a quad player, sextuplet paradiddlediddles and any flam drag /cheese /cheese 5 were my absolute favorite

9:28 careful Eric, cowbell might be watching!

Am I the only person whose never played any percussion whatsoever and loves this channel?

@amparosiegel7613

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. Me too :)

@ferretyluv

2 жыл бұрын

Me three.

I see the 7 stroke roll written functionally as a 1 beat, 6th note tap roll. An accent on "1", diddle on "e & a"

pataflafla was my fave from drumline, and the swiss triplets...

2:47 yes. I will play that on my schools marimba. Epic

I had lesson 25 in a S&E solo, I got good at it and have not used it yet

my heart sank, I didn't see the date and thought he shaved

Thinking of flams/pataflafla as MOLLER technique = 🤯 never thought of it like that been playing > 20 years. I 100% agree with your rankings accept I think practicing 7's helps your timing/understanding of 6/8 & 12/8 time signatures but that's just IMO.. AWESOME video literally should be required reading for any drummer. Subed and 🔔 Cheers \m/ !!!